**LES AMIS – BURKINA FASO Registered Charity 1120772**
## **FOR THE PERIOD: 1[ST] SEPTEMBER 2024 – 31[ST] AUGUST 2025**
- 1) **A meeting of the Trustees** (Gillie Nicholls-Penny and David Nicholls) was held 25[th] August 2025. Jude O’Mara-Spicer was unable to join us.
## 2) **Talks and presentations**
Gillie made a successful appeal in the parish of Cranleigh and Bramley in September 2024.
## 3) **Trip 2025**
For the seventh year running, there was no trip due to terrorist activity
## 4) **Our Regular Projects**
- a) Madonna & Child project
- b) The Diocese of Koupéla (Baskouré home for girls, St Monique Home for orphans, OCADES)
- c) Students/further education
- d) Ziniaré Home for girls
- e) Ab Paul Nazotin
- f) Ab Lambert Sawadogo
- g) St Joseph’s Training Centre in Fada
- h) Tenkodogo Diocese
- a) **Madonna & Child project for vulnerable women and disabled children**
The fund currently assists 20 handicapped children and 20 vulnerable women. The support the mothers of handicapped children receive is money which goes towards helping the women to meet food, housing, medical and physiotherapy costs, school fees and also materials with which to make things to sell (primarily soap). It remains an important aspect of this Foundation that the women and children get together socially regularly throughout the year. They continue to be given a meal every two months. The vulnerable older women are given food.
Madonna & Child **7,000**
## b) **Diocese of Koupéla: protecting and educating girls**
We have continued to finance a **refuge for girls in Baskouré** which houses young girls who have run away from a forced young marriage or from areas of terrorist activity. Increasingly, girls are being taken in due to having fled massacres/terrorist activity. Our giving contributes towards the cost of food, electricity, housing, clothes, healthcare costs and training the girls in a trade (making clothes, embroidery, brewing the local beer, weaving, soap-making, raising of livestock and growing vegetables being some of their past/current activities).
We continue to fund **St Monique Home** in Gounghin (for secondary school-aged girls), all of whom are orphaned of either one or both parents.
We have continued to include **OCADES** in our giving. OCADES is an organisation which works to give training to disadvantaged girls and women.
|give training to disadvantaged girls and women.||
|---|---|
|Baskouré Refuge|9,100|
|St Monique Home|2,000|
|OCADES|2,000|
||**13,100**|
|c)|We continue to give funds to assist**ex-St Monique girls**and also**other students**to help them
access further vocational training.
Students / further education
**7,500**|We continue to give funds to assist**ex-St Monique girls**and also**other students**to help them
access further vocational training.
Students / further education
**7,500**|
|---|---|---|
||Students / further education|**7,500**|
d) We continue to support a small home for vulnerable girls in the village of Ziniaré. At this time there are seven girls.
Ziniaré Home **1,000**
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## e) **Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Fada N’Gourma**
We continue to give funds for the purpose of his being able to help, in a direct and practical way, the many individuals who approach us for assistance. This method of reaching out to the destitute is extremely valuable to Les Amis-Burkina Faso.
Give away and projects **14,600**
- f) **Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Kaya**
We continue to give funds for the purpose of helping not only various individuals, but also a group of women to access training in specific areas.
|of women to access training in specific areas.||
|---|---|
|Individuals (education)|1,500|
|Individuals (not education)|1,000|
|Training centre for women|2,000|
|Schools (food and equipment)|3,000|
|Give away|1,000|
||**8,500**|
g) **St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada:** we continue to help with the costs of training a group of runaway girls as seamstresses at the St Joseph's Training Centre in Fada. Like the home in Baskouré, more girls are arriving fleeing the terrorists which now operate in much of Burkina Faso.
St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada **3,000**
h) Our giving to Tenkodogo this year is to support the education of young and disadvantaged girls in the diocese.
Tenkodogo Diocese **2,500**
Each area of activity is consistent with the objectives of the charity set out in the Trust Deed lodged with The Charity Commission for England and Wales.
## **5) Finances for the year**
- a) **Income**
|**Income**||
|---|---|
||**£**|
|Major donations (over £500)|26,965|
|Other cash and cheque donations (under £500)|7,797|
|Gift Aid from HMRC|6,489|
|Donation from GN to cover bank fees and charges|365|
|Standing Orders|27,619|
|**Total income**|**69,235**|
b) **Outgoings**
|**Outgoings**||
|---|---|
||**£**|
|Madonna & Child|7,000|
|Diocese of Koupéla|13,100|
|Students / further education|7,500|
|Ziniaré Home|1,000|
|Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Fada N’Gourma|14,600|
|Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Kaya|8,500|
|St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada|3,000|
|Tenkodogo Diocese|2,500|
|Bank fees and charges|365|
|**Total outgoings**|**57,565**|
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|**1120772**
**Les Amis - Burkina Faso**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
**CC16a**
— ~~SSS~~|**1120772**
**Les Amis - Burkina Faso**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
**CC16a**
— ~~SSS~~|
|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Last year**||
|**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||
|Donations
**69,235**
**-**
**-**
**69,235**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**69,235**
**-**
**-**
**69,235**
**-**
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total receipts_**
**69,235**
**-**
**-**
**69,235**
**-**
~~———_———~~||
|**A3 Payments**
Grants and donationspaid
**57,200**
**-**
**-**
**57,200**
**-**
Bank fees
**365**
**-**
**-**
**365**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 57,565**
**-**
**-**
**57,565**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total payments_**
**57,565**
**-**
**-**
**57,565**
**-**
~~=== ===~~
~~—_————~~||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**11,670**
**-**
**-**
**11,670**
**-**|**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**46,399**
**-**
**46,399**
**-**|**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**
**58,069**
**-**
**- 58,069**
**-**|**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
07/10/2025
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank balances
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**58,069**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**58,069**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
Print Name
David Nicholls
Gillie Nicholls|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||David Nicholls|07/10/2025|
|||Gillie Nicholls|07/10/2025|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
07/10/2025
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## INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF
## LES AMIS BURKINA FASO (Registered charity no. 1120772)
| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Les Amis Burkina Faso for the year ended 31 August 2025.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
| report in respect of my examination of the accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## Independent examiner’s statement
| have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. The accounts do not accord with those records
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## Teak
## Jonathan Pepper FCMA
Oaklands, Grosvenor Road, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1NZ
28 September 2025